Software Engineering Contracts with Work from Home Options

Software Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 44 44
Rank change year-on-year +13 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 911 1,194 2,362
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 6.16% 4.84% 5.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.00% 5.40% 5.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 800 1,724
10th Percentile £441 £438 £413
25th Percentile £500 £495 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% +7.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £763 £713 £663
90th Percentile £850 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £595
% change year-on-year - +0.84% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 76 60
10th Percentile £42.50 £47.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.14 £46.81
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £74.88 £67.10
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +15.04% +25.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,021 22,109 40,018
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.70% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,736 15,644 29,065
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 507 537
10th Percentile £14.93 £18.63 £14.15
25th Percentile £25.00 £27.86 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +35.06% +61.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.00 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Software Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Software Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Software Engineering.

Software Engineering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Engineering over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Software Engineering daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Software Engineering.

Software Engineering hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Engineering over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Software Engineering hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 112 (12.29%) Apache Airflow
2 102 (11.20%) Apache
3 26 (2.85%) Confluence
4 12 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.32%) CMS
5 6 (0.66%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.33%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.33%) nginx
7 2 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.22%) Drupal
8 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.11%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.11%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) MetaMask
8 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.11%) SAS
8 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 122 (13.39%) Chatbot
2 22 (2.41%) Simulink
2 22 (2.41%) Stateflow
3 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.11%) CATIA
5 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.22%) Endur
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 328 (36.00%) AWS
2 163 (17.89%) Azure
3 119 (13.06%) GCP
4 95 (10.43%) dbt
5 78 (8.56%) Snowflake
6 41 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (3.84%) GitHub
8 27 (2.96%) Serverless
9 19 (2.09%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (1.98%) PaaS
11 17 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (1.87%) npm
12 15 (1.65%) SaaS
13 14 (1.54%) IaaS
14 13 (1.43%) Amazon S3
15 12 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (1.32%) Azure Service Bus
16 11 (1.21%) Azure Logic Apps
17 10 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
17 10 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.54%) TCP/IP
2 13 (1.43%) HTTP
3 10 (1.10%) Firewall
3 10 (1.10%) VPN
4 9 (0.99%) SAN
5 8 (0.88%) 802.11
5 8 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.55%) Diameter Protocol
6 5 (0.55%) DNS
6 5 (0.55%) J1939
6 5 (0.55%) Wireless
7 3 (0.33%) Internet
8 2 (0.22%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.11%) HbbTV
9 1 (0.11%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.11%) Modbus
9 1 (0.11%) MQTT
9 1 (0.11%) RS-232
9 1 (0.11%) SNMP
9 1 (0.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (10.65%) Apache Ignite
2 93 (10.21%) Amazon Athena
2 93 (10.21%) Apache Arrow
2 93 (10.21%) Dremio
3 80 (8.78%) Data Lake
4 35 (3.84%) Apache Cassandra
5 33 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
6 32 (3.51%) SQL Server
7 28 (3.07%) MySQL
8 23 (2.52%) Oracle Database
9 20 (2.20%) NoSQL
10 16 (1.76%) MongoDB
11 15 (1.65%) Big Data
11 15 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
12 14 (1.54%) Relational Database
12 14 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 14 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 13 (1.43%) Oracle Database 11g
14 9 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
15 8 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 77 (8.45%) Git
2 53 (5.82%) JIRA
3 41 (4.50%) Jenkins
4 27 (2.96%) GitLab
5 23 (2.52%) Cypress.io
5 23 (2.52%) SonarQube
6 15 (1.65%) Cucumber
7 14 (1.54%) Selenium
7 14 (1.54%) Visual Studio
8 12 (1.32%) Maven
9 10 (1.10%) Rational DOORS
10 9 (0.99%) git-flow
10 9 (0.99%) Postman
11 8 (0.88%) JUnit
11 8 (0.88%) REST Assured
11 8 (0.88%) webpack
12 7 (0.77%) CircleCI
13 6 (0.66%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.66%) JMeter
14 5 (0.55%) Subversion
General
1 250 (27.44%) Finance
2 157 (17.23%) Front Office
3 144 (15.81%) Social Skills
4 124 (13.61%) Banking
5 91 (9.99%) Investment Banking
6 49 (5.38%) Automotive
7 31 (3.40%) Analytical Skills
8 28 (3.07%) Electronics
9 24 (2.63%) Public Sector
10 19 (2.09%) Legal
11 16 (1.76%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.65%) Marketing
13 14 (1.54%) Financial Institution
13 14 (1.54%) Manufacturing
14 12 (1.32%) Retail
15 9 (0.99%) Law
15 9 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (0.88%) Aerospace
17 7 (0.77%) Police
18 6 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 379 (41.60%) Developer
2 372 (40.83%) Software Engineer
3 176 (19.32%) Senior
4 166 (18.22%) Software Developer
5 96 (10.54%) Senior Software Engineer
6 81 (8.89%) Java Engineer
7 73 (8.01%) Python Engineer
8 69 (7.57%) Lead
9 64 (7.03%) Java Software Engineer
10 63 (6.92%) Python Software Engineer
11 61 (6.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 60 (6.59%) Python Developer
13 58 (6.37%) Java Developer
14 50 (5.49%) Senior Developer
15 44 (4.83%) AWS Engineer
16 40 (4.39%) AWS Software Engineer
16 40 (4.39%) Senior Java Engineer
17 39 (4.28%) C# Developer
18 35 (3.84%) Embedded Engineer
18 35 (3.84%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (19.32%) HTML
2 131 (14.38%) React
3 108 (11.86%) gRPC
4 106 (11.64%) Protocol Buffers
5 96 (10.54%) Pandas
6 90 (9.88%) NumPy
6 90 (9.88%) SciPy
7 72 (7.90%) Node.js
8 66 (7.24%) .NET
9 64 (7.03%) AngularJS
10 63 (6.92%) REST
11 59 (6.48%) CSS
11 59 (6.48%) Kafka
12 41 (4.50%) Redux
12 41 (4.50%) RESTful
13 35 (3.84%) GraphQL
14 30 (3.29%) Spring Boot
15 28 (3.07%) Spring
16 26 (2.85%) Vue
17 25 (2.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 136 (14.93%) Fixed Income
2 107 (11.75%) Derivative
3 104 (11.42%) Equities
4 103 (11.31%) Hedge funds
5 89 (9.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 41 (4.50%) Algorithms
7 28 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
8 24 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
9 23 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (2.20%) Management Information System
11 17 (1.87%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.21%) Mobile App
13 10 (1.10%) Pricing Data
14 8 (0.88%) Cloud Native
14 8 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.88%) IoT
14 8 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (0.88%) Product Ownership
14 8 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
15 7 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 53 (5.82%) Linux
2 24 (2.63%) Windows
3 11 (1.21%) Android
4 9 (0.99%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.99%) Debian
4 9 (0.99%) Ubuntu
5 7 (0.77%) Unix
6 6 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.22%) VMS
7 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.22%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.11%) tvOS
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Mobile
8 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (37.21%) Agile
2 144 (15.81%) Artificial Intelligence
3 138 (15.15%) Code Quality
4 131 (14.38%) Asset Management
5 130 (14.27%) DevOps
6 122 (13.39%) Conversational UI
7 116 (12.73%) Test Automation
8 106 (11.64%) Investment Management
9 102 (11.20%) CI/CD
10 91 (9.99%) Fintech
11 86 (9.44%) Full Stack Development
12 76 (8.34%) Problem-Solving
13 75 (8.23%) Computer Science
14 68 (7.46%) User Experience
15 66 (7.24%) Analytics
16 59 (6.48%) SDLC
17 57 (6.26%) Scrum
17 57 (6.26%) TDD
18 53 (5.82%) Validation
19 52 (5.71%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 373 (40.94%) Python
2 363 (39.85%) JavaScript
3 258 (28.32%) Java
4 245 (26.89%) SQL
5 228 (25.03%) C#
6 195 (21.41%) TypeScript
7 64 (7.03%) C++
8 60 (6.59%) C
9 52 (5.71%) Go
10 28 (3.07%) Scala
11 26 (2.85%) MATLAB
12 23 (2.52%) Embedded C
12 23 (2.52%) PHP
12 23 (2.52%) PL/SQL
13 22 (2.41%) PowerShell
14 18 (1.98%) Kotlin
15 17 (1.87%) Perl
15 17 (1.87%) R
16 11 (1.21%) Ruby
17 9 (0.99%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 200 (21.95%) Degree
2 104 (11.42%) Security Cleared
3 84 (9.22%) SC Cleared
4 31 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (2.85%) DV Cleared
6 17 (1.87%) Master's Degree
7 16 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (0.88%) PhD
9 2 (0.22%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.22%) MBA
10 1 (0.11%) CESG Certified Professional
10 1 (0.11%) CISM
10 1 (0.11%) CISSP
10 1 (0.11%) CLAS
10 1 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.11%) OCP
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (4.61%) Data Quality
2 23 (2.52%) QA
3 11 (1.21%) NCSC
4 7 (0.77%) AUTOSAR
5 6 (0.66%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.66%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.44%) JTAG
6 4 (0.44%) SEPA
7 2 (0.22%) Automotive SPICE
7 2 (0.22%) NIST
7 2 (0.22%) SLA
8 1 (0.11%) EMIR
8 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.11%) MiFID
8 1 (0.11%) RMADS
8 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 88 (9.66%) Docker
2 10 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.55%) ACF2
3 5 (0.55%) Firmware
3 5 (0.55%) IAG
3 5 (0.55%) RACF
4 4 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.33%) VirtualBox
5 3 (0.33%) zsh
6 2 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 97 (10.65%) Kubernetes
2 49 (5.38%) Terraform
3 31 (3.40%) Ansible
4 18 (1.98%) Grafana
5 16 (1.76%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.99%) Docker Swarm
7 8 (0.88%) Podman
8 6 (0.66%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.44%) Puppet
10 3 (0.33%) Kibana
10 3 (0.33%) Zipkin
11 2 (0.22%) Argo
11 2 (0.22%) Consul
11 2 (0.22%) Istio
11 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.22%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.22%) Packer
11 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.11%) Bugsnag
12 1 (0.11%) CASB
Vendors
1 121 (13.28%) PayPal
2 44 (4.83%) Oracle
3 37 (4.06%) Microsoft
4 17 (1.87%) Google
5 15 (1.65%) Bloomberg
6 12 (1.32%) Databricks
7 11 (1.21%) Red Hat
8 10 (1.10%) Atlassian
9 9 (0.99%) Salesforce
9 9 (0.99%) VMware
10 8 (0.88%) SAP
11 6 (0.66%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.55%) Sybase
13 4 (0.44%) Denodo
13 4 (0.44%) IBM
13 4 (0.44%) ION Trading
13 4 (0.44%) Splunk
13 4 (0.44%) Talend
14 3 (0.33%) MathWorks
14 3 (0.33%) NVIDIA